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room music 03.13.07

went to a chamber music concert tonight.. my landlady has an abonnement -- or a subscription.. we went last month as well. was lovely. in dutch it's kamermuziek or room music (direct tranlsation), 4 string instruments. once again - i was the only person of color.. well we went with an 87 year old indonesian princess -- but suppose all the years in holland drained all the color.. she looked quite white to me. she was a lovely lady (theres that word again, tis a lovely word:). she wore a leopard (yeah real deal) vest -- she explained it was the lining of a raincoat, she preferred the lining to the coat. we had a great, well grand time and the music was great.. had same thought as last time i went -- that the music.. itself, leaves youto yourself.. it doesnt try to engage you but propels you to your ownself. it infact gives you... room. chamber music was designed for royalty.. to be played in palaces where there wasn't room for an entire orchestra. tis an economy.. but also a gift.. where we're able to be on our own. everyone needs a little room.. a room of one's own per se. pretty individualistic in the grand european tradition of enlightenment. perhaps why in the end i prefer hip hop- an african derived music of call and response-- where we engage with each other.. but the space, the room, the music provided wass quite nice. i enjoyed the piece by hayden best -- but the last piece by beethoven (whom my landlord confided was rumored to have ejaculation issues), which in the last movement kept seeming as if it was going to end but didnt (the faux crescendos engaging us).. but eventually did (the audience releasing a collective gasp), was most profound.

"Bravo!"

..tis also what we tell my baby brother when he does something good – these days it's pretty infrequent (terrible twos), and I of course probably give him too much 'room' to act up… or b brilliant… time will tell. ..

posted by z.a.k. @ 7:22 AM